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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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149011
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I dream about the boy in The Neverending Story, the gate of mirrors, and the Nothing, a dark cloud that floats in the sky, takes away everything.
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149043
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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149051
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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149031
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I just amuse myself by buying old guns and refurbishing them in my basement as I listen to old Bohemian polkas on cassettes.
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149052
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The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.
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149032
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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149055
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While watching the ever-present crowds
passing by on my insides, I noticed,
by accident, a man smiling
who might have been me, not sure.
Maybe I’m eating soap
for the first time, because I am
either frothing or foaming
at the mouth.
An
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149064
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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149000
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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149022
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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149045
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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148966
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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148996
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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148961
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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
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148932
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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1489158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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148930
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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148962
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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148920
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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148942
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In the summer of 1963 I went to Philadelphia to study with a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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148932
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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148940
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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148977
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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1489135
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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148920
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Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…
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148955
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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14891814
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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1488128
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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1488129
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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
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